Firm Volunteers To Run City Hall Project

February 22, 1986

GREENACRES CITY — To hasten work on the 11-month overdue City Hall, K Hovnanian Companies of Florida Inc. has offered to step onto the problem-plagued construction site and oversee the $769,617 project for free.

``I would absolutely and emphatically suggest to take up the offer,`` Mayor Jim Quigley told council members at a special workshop meeting called Friday to discuss the delay-ridden building at 5985 10th Ave. N.

The project, now being built by NuView Construction Corp. of Lake Park, has been nearly 95 percent complete since November. Shipment delays, squabbles among workers and severe delays in paychecks have dragged out the project, now expected to be completed by May, City Administrator John Treanor said.

Council members Monday are expected to approve the Hovnanian offer, which city staff members call remarkable and a good publicity vehicle.

HANDICAPPED TO RECEIVE LESSONS IN SAILING

Handicaps need not deter people from enjoying the sports of South Florida.

The Connecticut-based American Sailing Foundation, in conjunction with the Palm Beach Habilition Center in Lake Worth, is sponsoring a sailing workshop for people with developmental and physical disabilities at 1 p.m. Sunday at Island View Park in Miami Beach.

The workshop will take place near the Miami Boat Show at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

The free program will enable students to learn how to sail through the use of radio-controlled model sailboats donated by the manufacturer, AG Industries.

Phil Gansz, who teaches mildly retarded adults to work in boat yards at the Habilitation Center, said sailing and knot-tying will be among the skills taught on Sunday.